Event Description

Please join FTC Commissioner Julie Brill in a Twitter Chat to discuss data security, privacy, and the Internet of things.

Julie Brill was sworn in as a Commissioner in April 2010. She is an advocate of protecting consumers’ privacy, especially with new online and mobile technologies. She has been active in discussions involving cross border data protection and privacy issues, especially with respect to the proposed data protection regulation in the European Union. And she has encouraged data brokers to increase the transparency of their data collection and use, and to provide enhanced access and choice to consumers.

Read Commissioner Brill’s complete biography and review her recent speeches on these topics and more on FTC.gov.

See FTC Twitter Chats for more information about how FTC chats work and learn about how the FTC uses information that may be collected from its Twitter chats.

FTC Privacy Policy

Under the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) or other laws, we may be required to disclose to outside organizations the information you provide when you pre-register. The Commission will consider all timely and responsive public comments, whether filed in paper or electronic form, and as a matter of discretion, we make every effort to remove home contact information for individuals from the public comments before posting them on the FTC website.

The FTC Act and other laws we administer permit the collection of your pre-registration contact information and the comments you file to consider and use in this proceeding as appropriate. For additional information, including routine uses permitted by the Privacy Act, see the Commission’s comprehensive Privacy Policy.

This event is open to the public and may be photographed, videotaped, webcast, or otherwise recorded. By participating in this event, you are agreeing that your image — and anything you say or submit — may be posted indefinitely at ftc.gov or on one of the Commission's publicly available social media sites.